off-topic • Re: My Weird Music 😝
Been listening again on youtube, and letting it roll from one track to the next.It's quite pleasant and led me back to this album which I hadn't had on in a while:Delerium - SpheresYou'll perhaps...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Inufuto BBC games compilation
Bravo, again!Had you been in touch with Inufuto at all, to tell them what you're doing?Also, never being well acquainted with a Master 128's config, I was only reminded recently that using Shadow RAM...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: New Oric Atom owner
I agree. It looks like the BREAK key has been repositioned. It does look like there has been some other work done on the keyboard, which is not a great sign, as these keyboards are notoriously...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Blue Box Owners here?
The Atom that I recently claimed through eBay includes the mailer box and polies - which is great.Yet that Blue Box is the one to have in my opinion. Seeing that those are rare as hen's teeth, instead...
View Articlenew projects and releases: demoscene • Re: Ray Caster Demo
I was more eyeing the 4MHz turbo than the shadow ram - But I understand your point.In any case I have a couple of ideas to possibly improve the speed. Will see how I get on.Statistics: Posted by...
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econet in all its guises • Re: BeebEM error connecting to PiEconet Bridge
The "EXPOSE NET" command will also be assuming a /24. Again you could use a /16 at the IP layer, but the IP/host mapping will be /24 oriented. So where you have "EXPOSE NET 1 ON 172.17.0.0 PORT FIXED...
View Articleprogramming • Re: BBC BASIC 8 Bit procedures: large speed overhead, due to...
So here's a version that changes the procedure that prints the stack into a function, so we can call it from within an expression:Code: 680 NEXT 690 PRINT...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: ADFS for multiple SCSI drives
If I try to mount drive 1, and wait for the Drive not ready error, then if I issue a SCSI stop unit to the current drive, I get a disc error 4 straight away. If I then do a *BYE, I get no error.If I...
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other events + general event chat • Copro copro-cabana, Mon 17th Feb 2025
This month's meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:Copro copro-cabana, presented by Rob SprowsonMonday 17th February 2025, 7.45pmThe Duke of Sussex (upstairs in the Chichester or...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: BBC Sound Demo / Bananarama
I've searched most online repositories for RISC software I can find, including the Internet Archive which has a lot of it, but still no luck. I think that, unless someone has a physical copy, it may...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Blue Box Owners here?
I have a blue box. Could you reconstruct what you need from a number of A4 scans?ChrisYes! Most definitely! I should be able to easily stitch them together for further work. Thanks so much for the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • DRAM row/column address and strobe timings
Apologies in advance. I suspect either I’m asking a question that’s already been very much answered before, or I’m opening a can of worms.I’ve been doing a belated deep dive into the Beeb’s core ICs...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Which BBC Model B /...
b2 has a native macOS build: https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releases/latest - I use the Intel macOS build on my Intel Mac sometimes, but the Apple Silicon build is so far untested by me (however it...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
I believe that Alex was doing the Arcade Archive but decided to hand it over to the Retro Collective and focus on his own impressive collection.Statistics: Posted by paulb — Sun Feb 16, 2025 1:06 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: DRAM row/column address and strobe timings
Section 3.3 of the service manual might help a little with the sequence but doesn't really give any timing figureshttp://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org ... 5_Sec1.pdfStatistics: Posted by lovebug —...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • APDL Domain is up for Auction
Good Evening,I tried accessing the APDL domain this evening and, while I can access the main page at:https://arcarc.nl/archive/PD%20Librarie ... ibrary.htmClicking on any link gives the following...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RiscPC motherboard video issue
my hot air tool had a nozzle on it that was wider than the diameter of the caps. I found that lowering the tool over the cap and gently tapping the cap with the nozzle until it was free to move out of...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Possible Pinball game for the BBC Micro
The score is increasing when things that should increase it happen like going through the left and right lanes at the top and hitting the pop bumpers, I just forgot that I added that bit!!!There is...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master Compact speaker spec?
The LM386 audio power amplifier chip (used in Masters) is happy with loudspeakers with an impedance of 4 ohms upwards.MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Sun Feb 16, 2025 11:01 pm
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: *DATE PiEconet bridge
The date on the Pi Bridge will most likely be correct (although it does have an option not to support years after 1997 for compatibility with the original "short Acorn era" date range of 1981 to 1996)...
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